4th Grade Local Geography Block

4th Grade Local Geography Block

4th Grade Local Geography Block

March 28, 2017Roberto Maiocchi

From Ms. Saltet, our current 4th Grade Teacher:
On a recent sunny Wednesday the Fourth grade took a field trip to the top of Mt.Tamalpais as part of our local geography block. After mapping our classroom, school building and wider campus, the children suggested climbing to the top of the ridge in Wildcat Canyon to get a view of El Sobrante and the land beyond. We drew what we saw and turned it into a map.

What next?

Go higher! So we did. From the top of Mt. Tamalpais we could look down on our Bay Area and see that water, not land, is the center of where we live. We then came back and turned our sketches into a south-facing map.